[Development] Tips needed on doing cross-platform building/testing

[Ray Donnelly]

My usual approach for testing before exposing to the world is to use git
format-patch -1

Then patch -p1 < 0001-Some-commit-message.patch

I use Dropbox to share patch files.
On Sep 28, 2013 12:14 AM, "Koehne Kai" <Kai.Koehne at digia.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > [...]
> > If by share with the VM you mean via a shared folder, I wouldn't
> recommend
> > it, Qt uses in-tree builds so you'd be forever having to "git clean
> -dfx" and
> > rebuild from scratch every time you switched OS's, and believe me given
> > how slow Git and Qt is building in a Window's VM then you don't want to
> do
> > that often.
>
> Qt builds just fine in a shadow build setup. The only caveats are that it
> should be on the same file system level than the source directory, and that
> your source directory should be really clean (e.g. not containing any build
> artifacts). I'm using this setup since forever ...
>
> Just saying,
>
> Kai
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